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TIL the Catholic Church has accepted the Big Bang theory and Darwinian evolution since 1950.

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oRpRK TIL before becoming a renowned writer, Eudora Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, documenting rural life in Mississippi. Her photography often reflected the same keen observation of people and their environments as her fiction.
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